Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1950s: Mischief / The Blunderer / Beast in View / Fools' Gold

by Patricia Highsmith, Charlotte Armstrong, Dolores Hitchens, et al.

Book Overview

The Real Lolita author Sarah Weinman presents a landmark collection of 4 brilliant novels by the female pioneers of crime fiction--women who paved the way for Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Lisa Scottoline

Though women crime and suspense writers dominate today's bestseller lists, the extraordinary work of the mid-century pioneers of the genre is largely unknown. Turning in many cases from the mean streets of the hardboiled...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598534319
• ISBN13: 9781598534313
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 848 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"